I enjoyed the opening stanza.... So realistic! When there is only faint light one feels the rotund chair tops and the hulk of the table while proceeding to the balcony.... The mist covered sky being compared to a white washed canvas is a great image and the hills and trees slowly emerging from cover is beautiful!

That obscuring veil of mist becomes
A diaphanous gauze of translucence,
Asserting hill-crest and hill-rock
Along my trans-urban horizon.

A picturesque description of the scenery watched through a diaphanous gauze of mist!

'Did I Ever Exist? '

I am not sure I ever lived, except in this imagined space, This concoction of words that perhaps make a little sense To a kindly heart like yours.

If I was never born, I never died. Was I immortal Without ever being me, a person with a body, mind and soul, Like you, but different, a unique variant?

I am no freak, no fiction, once I was a fact, If Time can be trusted, solar or cosmic.My tale is sad and simple. Mother's womb Was all the world I ever knew Before I grew to be a person, Rather than a form of words, your words, this ...